What Brian Merchant thinks about privacy
Journalist and author; writes Blood in the Machine, a newsletter on AI, tech, labor and power, and wrote the book of the same name on the Luddites.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Brian Merchant has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAnd workers everywhere should look forward to continuing to fight against corporations angling to embrace mass automation and surveillance, and against big tech's continued, AI-focused concentration of power. That fight has just begun.
↗California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the USbloodinthemachine.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsAbuse of the system has been rampant. Police have used Flock's Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs) to stalk exes and to track women seeking abortions across state lines.